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Paul E. Peterson; M. Danish Shakeel – Education Next, 2024
As states have passed laws establishing charter schools, advocates have carefully tracked and analyzed state policies and enrollments to compare charter school growth, demand, and access across the United States. But to date, there have been no comparisons of charter school performance across states based on student achievement adjusting for…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Assessment, National Competency Tests, Standardized Tests
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McShane, Michael Q. – Education Next, 2021
The 2020 Democratic Party platform promises a ban on all federal funding for for-profit charter schools, explaining that "education is a public good and should not be saddled with a private profit motive." A look at Academica, a large U.S.-based education service, and their response to the COVID-19 crisis might temper some of that…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Proprietary Schools, Political Attitudes, Federal Aid